Head of Engineering

1 month ago

Romsey, Hampshire, United Kingdom Roke Full time
About Roke

Roke is a world-class engineering and technology company, with a trusted and long-standing record of delivery spanning research & development, products, managed-services and consultancy, serving customers across the globe.

The Role

The Head of Engineering will drive the capabilities within the Engineering team to ensure fulfilment of the BU strategies. They will contribute to the strategy for their BU as well as providing technical advice and support to the delivery function.

Key Responsibilities
  • Leadership: Understand the Customer vision and help them to contract and deliver that change
  • Grow the digital skills within the Information Advantage Delivery Unit
  • Identify organic investment opportunities to generate new products and services
  • Support the generation of M&A targets
  • Play an active role in BU Leadership Team, constantly looking for ways in which to improve ways of working and the capability of the engineering team to match the needs of the BU strategy.
  • Manage internal budgets effectively in the areas of training, conferences and necessary engineering facilities.
  • Provide engineering leadership to strategic projects, bids and clients
  • Develop a community within the engineering cadre, own initiatives to support attrition at/below planned rates and to support desired Roke/Chemring values and behaviours.
Capability
  • Ensure that the people capability within the BU aligns to the demands of the BU (capacity, skills, location and clearance), the company people capability strategies (owned by Heads of Profession) and is supported by a training plan considering personal careers aspirations.
  • Ensure that Offerings within the BU are owned and managed, and follow Roke policies and processes for their lifecycle management.
  • Work with Innovation team to ensure PV investments and University engagements are aligned to BU strategy and to ensure engineering tools and processes remain current to meet delivery needs and are used consistently across the Company.
  • Ensure there is a network of technical pre-sales capability within the BU engineering community to facilitate deliveries.
  • Maintain a community of Technical Leads contributing to Delivery, Business Development and Capability Development that works within the BU and across the Company.
Managing People & Recruitment
  • Identifies and implements opportunities to optimise team effectiveness and performance
  • Sets clear and ambitious objectives for the team and supports the team in achieving them
  • Coaches and mentors staff across the business, provides feedback through regular 1:1 meetings and team meetings to discuss goals set in line with company policies
  • Leads employees through the performance management processes including performance conversations, career development and performance improvement programmes
  • Facilitates the cascade of business communications to team members, providing context and guidance where required
  • Ensure that support to recruitment is in place against the short and long term demands of the BU.
Requirements
  • Technical education and/or qualifications in relevant field.
  • Accomplished technical and business development professional with in depth knowledge of capability provision and supply of the specific domain.
  • Knowledge of sector operations, organisations and structures and how to align them to products and services.
  • Deep expertise in the relevant Technical landscape.
  • Experience in providing thought leadership and guidance to key stakeholders.
  • Experience in developing complex user requirements and translating them into technical or support requirements.
  • Experience of working in, and managing, agile teams and delivering complexity at pace.
  • Experience delivering bids and securing both Client and internal funding.
Why Roke?

We have a competitive salary and access to a number of additional flexible benefits, which will cover Health and Wellbeing, Savings and Protection & Life, Leisure and Entertainment.

Roke has a great community of groups with shared interests. These enable people to share ideas and be passionate about tools, technologies & techniques, which interest them.

We are committed to a policy of Equal Opportunity, Diversity and Inclusion. Our working environment is friendly, creative and inclusive. We will consider flexible working arrangements and support a diverse work-force and those with additional needs.

Due to the nature of this position, we require you to be eligible to achieve SC as a minimum and in some cases DV clearance may be required. As a result, you should be a British Citizen and have resided in the UK for the last 5 years for SC and 10 years for DV.

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